Re: Questions about submiting a package to ELPA

[Elijah G]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 8:30 PM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > From: Elijah G <eg642616@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 13:17:58 -0600
> >
> > Hello, I'm developing a new package for ELPA named colorful-mode
> > (https://github.com/DevelopmentCool2449/colorful-mode).
> >
> > Currently it is still in an experimental state, but before submitting
> > it here I have some questions.
> >
> > - Do I need to assign copyright to FSF? I've already sent my
> > paperworks successfully for a contribution to flymake and I don't know
> > if I must assign again for this, if so can someone send me the request
> > form off-list?.
> >
> > - Can someone send me a request form for my future contributors, this
> > is to help them how to contribute to my package.
>
> Your legal paperwork regarding your contribution to flymake covers
> also your future contributions, so no need for another assignment to
> submit packages to ELPA.

Thank you.

> > Also this is not related to ELPA, How can I add new color names in
> > Emacs, Do I need to modify rgb.txt? I would like to contribute by
> > adding some missing color names such as "Teal" and "Chocolate";
> > defined-colors only includes "chocolate" but not "Chocolate".
>
> Adding colors is meaningless, because colors are defined by the
> underlying platforms.  You can add faces, using defface, where the
> colors is defined by their hex RGB values.
> If this doesn't answer your questions, please tell more details:
> why do you want to add these
> colors and how you intend to use them.

When I was adding support for colorizing HTML colors names into my
package I found that emacs already provides some of them,
so I thought it would be a good idea to use those colors already provided.
However some of these colors are in lowercase and most HTML color
names uses Capital Case and/or PascalCase, i think that maybe
add their Pascal or Capital case would help to packages that uses HTML
colors such as my package, rainbow-mode and maybe the colorize feature from
css-mode; this is because users must lowercase the color name for
preview/colorize
them.
But i think i must not use `defined-colors' for this behavior and
define the colors
myself.

Anyways thanks for the help.